2 February 2020
I rent a house which has an absolutely brilliant robotic cleaner called a ‘Dolphin’. It works well except you have to switch it OFF, wait 20 seconds and then switch it ON again for it to operate.
Apparently the next model up has a bluetooth interface for many hundreds of dollars more. If I want that option, after the fact, I would have to replace the whole cleaner…not great news!!
I thus set-about making a “robotic finger” to mimic this action every day, at a set time.
I use the famous Raspberry Pi 3. The first version of the ‘Robotic finger’s was, ummm… unreliable mechanically, I thus redesigned it. It also has a camera which shows me that the pump is running and the LCD display of the Davis pH meter. The first version is shown below:
The ‘Robotic finger’ work-bench tested as follows:
“Automation” is what robots do best, things that are either too complex or to mundane for humans. I love this simple robot which takes blood pressure, SPO2, pulse rate (PR) and temperature from your finger and displays these parameters on an OLED screen!
